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		<title>This Temporal Laser Cloak Can Hide Things in Time</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/06/06/this-temporal-laser-cloak-can-hide-things-in-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 16:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most splashy inventions have science fiction analogues, appearing in film, television or print long before popping up in real life, like: Star Trek&#8216;s medical tri-corder, Harry Potter&#8216;s invisibility cloak or The Transformers&#8216; metamorphosing robot animals. But a cloak that can blink data out of time itself? Let&#8217;s say you want to hide something you&#8217;re doing online, like sending a text message or transferring a file to someone. Nowadays you might choose to encrypt that data, but even if someone listening wasn&#8217;t able to crack your encryption scheme, there&#8217;s still evidence something was sent. The real trick, if you wanted to cover your tracks, would be devising a way to conceal the transmission itself. And if you wanted to be diabolically clever about it, you might make that concealment mechanism time itself. Crazy fourth-dimensional voodoo science, right? Maybe not. Back in 2010, researchers at Imperial College London suggested it might actually be possible to hide things in time by generating temporally camouflaged moments during which someone could carry out an action unobserved. Their inspiration? The concept behind prototype invisibility cloaks, which can hide objects by using specially crafted materials that warp the electromagnetic spectrum, making it seem as if the light were flowing continuously without encountering the concealed object. It&#8217;s just a hop, skip and a jump from that to hiding events in time, surmised the researchers, suggesting that by temporally separating light waves, then bringing them back together, you might be able to cloak pockets of time. Those pockets might then allow you to secure data transmissions sent over optical fiber (a transmission medium that conveys data using light). &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t just prevent eavesdroppers from reading your data — they wouldn’t even know there was any data there to hack,&#8221; explains Purdue University electrical engineer Joseph Lukens, lead author of a new study just published in science journal Nature. Sounding appreciably Fringe-esque yet? This isn&#8217;t the first time scientists have fiddled with a time-cloak: In January 2012, Nature published a paper by scientists at Cornell who wrote that &#8220;it may be desirable to cloak the occurrence<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=164154&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Study Says E-mail Increases Stress Levels</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/06/05/study-says-e-mail-increases-stress-levels/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 16:15:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Techlicious / Fox Van Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you been feeling a bit stressed out lately? According to a soon-to-be-released research study conducted by Loughborough University in the U.K., reading and sending e-mails, especially those that interrupt your work, significantly raises levels of stress in your body. As part of a study, researchers monitored 30 government employees as they went about their day, measuring certain markers of increased stress. Scientists found that 83% of those studied felt e-mail-related anxiety, with symptoms including a quicker pulse, increased blood pressure, and higher levels of the stress hormone cortisol. Stress levels were highest when inboxes are at their fullest. The study found that there’s a way to find relief from the e-mail stress: Get your inbox organized. Using folders to organize e-mails and using e-mail managing apps to reduce clutter help lower anxiety by making it feel like you have more control over the communication medium. You should also make an effort to avoid multitasking – that is, reading e-mails and answering phone calls at the same time – overloading your brain will only increase stress levels. “The brain can only deal with eight to 12 tasks at any one time and if you can&#8217;t shut those tasks down you start to become overloaded and fatigued,” explained Professor Tom Jackson. This article was written by Fox Van Allen and originally appeared on Techlicious. More from Techlicious: Best Apps and Sites to Relax and Destress Apps That Make Managing Email Easy Top Tips To Manage Your Inbox<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=164079&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unexpected: A Sonar-Based Wireless Network that Lives in Your Body</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/06/05/unexpected-a-sonar-based-wireless-network-that-lives-in-your-body/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 13:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve probably read about the future where we reengineer our bodies or seen it hyperbolized in film: people awash in bionic contrivances and bleeding-edge actuators, a melange of subcutaneous processors relaying wireless signals to each other and beyond, turning us into something like cyborg bio-routers swimming in a sea of continuous, real-time information. Only there&#8217;s a problem with that: radio waves don&#8217;t propagate so well through skin and muscle, requiring significant energy to get the job done and generating a fair bit of heat in the process. Researchers at the University of Buffalo are talking about an intriguing potential workaround that&#8217;s premised on an elementary school biology principle: the human body, with all its parts, amounts to roughly 60% water. What travels well through water? Sonic vibrations, of course, which is where sonar &#8212; sound propagation through water &#8212; comes in. By designing sonar-based technology small enough to work within the confines of the human body (or worn without), the researchers hope to create sonar-based &#8220;body area networks&#8221; composed of interrelating ultrasonic sensors capable of generating or detecting wireless information and acting to treat diseases like diabetes or heart failure in real time. We already use sound waves in medicine, of course. The most obvious example would be obstetric sonography (or as it&#8217;s more commonly known, an &#8220;ultrasound&#8221;), which allows obstetricians and expecting parents to visualize a child in the womb (using nondestructive sound waves). By contrast, my father once underwent a preemptive kidney stone procedure called a lithotripsy whereby destructive, high-energy shock waves were beamed through a target spot on his body to essentially pulverize the offending stones; the University of Buffalo researchers are obviously using the nondestructive type. &#8220;This is a biomedical advancement that could revolutionize the way we care for people suffering from the major diseases of our time,&#8221; said Tommaso Melodia, an associate professor of electrical engineering with the university. Melodia is working off a five-year, $449,000 National Science Foundation CAREER grant and his research &#8212; begun in February 2013 and estimated to wrap in January 2018 &#8212; is titled<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=164047&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Motorola Is Working On a Password Pill for Once-Daily Authentication &#8212; Oh, and a Tattoo, Too</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/31/motorola-is-working-on-a-password-pill-for-once-daily-authentication-oh-and-a-tattoo-too/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 15:04:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s get real: We have a password problem. People generally don&#8217;t use unique passwords for each site they visit. Some people just use plain awful passwords. Even if you use strong passwords, as recommended, sites still get hacked (over and over and over again). Getting rid of passwords altogether has been heralded as a possible solution, whether by fingerprint authentication, eyeball scanning, facial recognition or any number of tactics that use your body as a unique identifier. Former DARPA head Regina Dugan is now in charge of advanced research at Motorola. In an interview at the D11 conference this week, Dugan showed off two things her team has been working on: a digital tattoo and a once-daily pill, both of which would be used to authenticate you in some manner or another. All Things D She first showed off the tattoo, saying, &#8220;This is a developmental system made by MC10. It has an antenna and some sensors embedded in it, and what we plan to do is work with them to advance a tattoo that could be used for authentication.&#8221; It doesn&#8217;t appear to be a permanent tattoo &#8212; there&#8217;s a better look at the tattoos up close on MC10&#8242;s website &#8212; though Dugan joked that although kids don&#8217;t like wearing watches, they&#8217;d get electronic tattoos &#8220;if only to piss off their parents.&#8221; The basic concept behind this type of tattoo isn&#8217;t all that different from the keyfob you might use for work or the tap-to-pay credit card you might have. The main difference is that you&#8217;d be less likely to lose your tattoo. But why not turn your entire body into an authentication device? After demonstrating the authentication tattoo, Dugan continued, &#8220;And that&#8217;s something that you wear, but you could also imagine including authentication in just your daily habits. So, I take a vitamin every morning. What if I could take vitamin authentication?&#8221; All Things D &#8220;This pill has a small chip inside of it with a switch. It also has what amounts to an inside-out potato battery. When<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163784&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Star Trek Tricorder? &#8216;Scanadu Scout&#8217; Health Monitor Surges Past Indiegogo Funding Goal</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/24/a-star-trek-tricorder-scanadu-scout-health-monitor-surges-past-indiegogo-funding-goal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 14:54:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember Star Trek&#8216;s tricorder? The device Dr. McCoy usually whipped out and waved over people before declaring someone kaput? Yep, someone&#8217;s actually making one, or at least the early 21st century version of one. Meet Scanadu Scout, a small scanning device by California startup Scanadu (&#8220;scan&#8221; plus &#8220;Xanadu&#8221;?) that can quickly grab your vitals, then beam them to a smartphone. The Scout soared past its $100,000 Indiegogo funding goal just hours after launch, then proceeded to more than triple that figure with nearly a month to go What is it? A hockey puck-shaped object that can apparently measure your temperature, heart rate, oximetry (blood oxygenation), run an electrocardiogram, gauge heart rate variability, clock pulse wave transit time (related to blood pressure), perform a urine analysis and calculate a metric Scanadu refers to (vaguely) as &#8220;stress.&#8221; All you have to do to get these readings, urine analysis notwithstanding, is hold the Scout against your forehead for a few seconds. &#8220;One of the problems with the current medical system is that you only connect with the system every now and then,&#8221; says Scanadu&#8217;s chief medical officer, Dr. Alan Greene, in the video below, followed by Scanadu CEO Walter de Brouwer, who makes a great point about the disparity between the recent explosion of personalized devices and biofeedback technology. &#8221;With your smartphone you can find out about anything, anywhere, but what you can&#8217;t find is information about your own body,&#8221; adds Greene. What typically happens first when you visit the doctor? Right, someone takes your vitals: blood pressure, heart rate, temperature and so forth. I&#8217;ve never knowingly had a pulse oximetry test before, but since I had a baby and that baby&#8217;s had chest colds, I&#8217;ve learned about this noninvasive procedure &#8212; a little clip that goes on his foot to check how well he&#8217;s oxygenating; the Scout can automatically grab that information, too. KurzweilAI reports that the device has a visible and near-IR LED and sensor (for the oximetry test), an ECG sensor, a far-IR sensor (for temperature) and a microphone (to gauge heart and breathing sounds). Scanadu says the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163442&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Airway Created with a 3D Printer Saved This Baby&#8217;s Life</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/23/an-airway-created-with-a-3d-printer-saved-this-babys-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 16:24:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you think 3D printing&#8217;s overhyped with all this talk of plastic guns and strange, spider-like houses, you clearly haven&#8217;t seen this: a tiny airway splint created using a 3D printer that saved a three-month-old&#8217;s life. Doctors at C.S. Mott Children&#8217;s Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan (coincidentally, where my son was born not 10 months ago) paired their medical know-how with the latest 3D printing technology to generate a custom, synthetic bio-part that ultimately saved a child who&#8217;d lost the ability to breathe on his own. Kaiba Gionfriddo, who lives with his parents in Youngstown, Ohio, had a rare birth defect known as tracheobronchomalacia: just one in 2,200 are born with it. In babies with the condition, the airway walls are so weak they frequently collapse when breathing or coughing, shutting down the airway. Parents (and doctors) often miss the condition until the child suddenly stops breathing, which is how, terrifyingly, Kaiba&#8217;s parents discovered while eating at a restaurant that their six-week-old baby had it. &#8220;He turned blue and stopped breathing on us,&#8221; Kaiba&#8217;s mother April Gionfriddo told the Associated Press, at which point Kaiba&#8217;s father, Bryan, had to perform CPR to revive him. But the breathing problems continued, and Kaiba wound up on a breathing machine at Akron Children&#8217;s Hospital in Ohio; doctors there told Kaiba&#8217;s mother his chances of leaving the hospital alive were slim. So when one of those Akron doctors, Marc Nelson, mentioned that researchers in Michigan were experimenting with artificial airway splints, Kaiba&#8217;s parents wasted no time getting in touch with the hospital and doctors Glenn Green, M.D. and Scott Hollister, Ph.D. Writing of the situation on the Univeristy of Michigan&#8217;s health blog, Green notes that the timing was just right &#8212; he and Hollister had &#8220;been working on a type of device that would be perfect to help splint little Kaiba’s airway, keeping it clear for air to continually flow to the lungs.&#8221; According to Green: Scott and I had been exploring creating implants using a type of biodegradable polyester called polycaprolactone for a while, but it had never been<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163383&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Timelapse: Landsat Satellite Images of Climate Change, via Google Earth</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 12:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Kluger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Las Vegas to Arctic glaciers, navigate through time and space as you explore changes to Earth&#8217;s surface over the last three decades. Timelapse: Landsat Satellite Images of Climate Change, via Google Earth Engine.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162459&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Smart&#8217; Nanoparticles Can Now Control Blood Sugar in Diabetics for &#8216;Days at a Time&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/08/smart-nanoparticles-can-now-control-blood-sugar-in-diabetics-for-days-at-a-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 15:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Say you&#8217;re diabetic: Instead of having to inject yourself with insulin multiple times a day, imagine only having to do it once a week. Crazy, right? And instead of your syringe harboring glucose-regulating insulin, imagine it filled with nanoscopic particles you fire into your bloodstream &#8212; particles capable of detecting when your body&#8217;s blood sugar levels rise and releasing insulin accordingly. Thanks to research conducted at North Carolina State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Children’s Hospital Boston, what sounds like a Kurzweilian science fiction fantasy may soon be reality for the estimated 25.8 million children and adults in the U.S. alone &#8212; 8.3% of the population, according to the American Diabetes Association &#8211; with high blood sugar (and 366 million in all worldwide). &#8220;We’ve created a ‘smart’ system that is injected into the body and responds to changes in blood sugar by releasing insulin, effectively controlling blood-sugar levels,&#8221; says NC State University biomedical engineering assistant professor Dr. Zhen Gu, the lead author of a paper describing the work (via NC State news). &#8221;We’ve tested the technology in mice, and one injection was able to maintain blood sugar levels in the normal range for up to 10 days.&#8221; Diabetes, also known as diabetes mellitus to describe the full range of health complications the disease encompasses, is essentially about glucose or &#8220;blood sugar&#8221; control. Glucose is a crucial energy-delivering body fuel, but it requires the hormone insulin to convey it to the body&#8217;s cellular network. If you don&#8217;t produce enough insulin, glucose can accumulate to unhealthy levels, resulting in all sorts of unpleasant symptoms that can range from mild to life-threatening. Thus diabetics have to monitor their glucose levels throughout the day, periodically injecting themselves with insulin to regulate their blood sugar levels. That means keeping diagnostic tools &#8212; as well as insulin &#8212; handy at all times, learning how much insulin to administer with each dose (not as straightforward as it might sound, and getting this wrong poses its own complications), to say nothing of the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162382&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jawbone&#8217;s Fitness Future: A Platform and an Acquistion</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/30/jawbones-fitness-future-a-platform-and-an-acquistion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you contemplate gadget maker Jawbone, it&#8217;s been reasonable to think of it as a Bluetooth audio company which has an interesting side business in the form of its Up fitness band. Starting today, however, Jawbone&#8217;s fitness business no longer feels so much like a sideline. The company is announcing that it&#8217;s turning Up into a platform that can talk to third-party apps and devices. And it&#8217;s acquiring BodyMedia, a manufacturer of smart fitness gizmos that&#8217;s been in the game far longer than Jawbone or most other companies in the category. The platform involves a new version of the Up app &#8212; for iOS at first, and, eventually, Android &#8212; which enables two-way communications with other products and services. Up can now exchange data with fitness apps MapMyRun (and other products from MapMyFitness), MyFitnessPal and Runkeeper; Withings&#8217; Internet-connected scale; Wello&#8217;s video-personal trainer service; the IFTTT service for creating custom connections between all sorts of apps; and more. Data about your activity and sleep patterns collected by Up can now be routed into other products and services, and information collected by other products and services can land in Up. (You have control over details such as whether your weight gets shared publicly, and Jawbone says that apps that use the platform must stick to the same privacy policies as Up.) It&#8217;s a promising idea, especially if it&#8217;s widely supported &#8212; for now, Jawbone says that it&#8217;s being picky about which partners it approves, but it hopes to ramp up the quantity of stuff over time. BodyMedia As for BodyMedia, its products, like Up, are wearable fitness devices. But they have surprisingly little in common with Jawbone&#8217;s current gadget, and in some ways they&#8217;re far more sophisticated: they&#8217;re sensor-laden armbands which monitor factors such as skin temperature, and have been certified by the FDA as Class I Medical Devices. For now, the BodyMedia devices will continue on in their existing form, but it&#8217;s not hard to imagine future gizmos that meld BodyMedia&#8217;s advanced technologies with Jawbone&#8217;s slick design. As a user of fitness<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=161387&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>LISTEN: What Did Alexander Graham Bell Sound Like?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/26/listen-what-did-alexander-graham-bell-sound-like/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 17:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alexander Graham Bell, as you probably know, invented the telephone. What you may not know, is that he also made crucial refinements to the first techniques used to record and play back sound. And yet contemporary listeners have never been able to hear Bell&#8217;s voice &#8212; until now, thanks to researchers at at the Smithsonian, Library of Congress and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The first recording device &#8212; Thomas Edison&#8217;s phonograph &#8212; used tinfoil-covered cylinders to encode sound waves. Bell (Edison&#8217;s rival) and his associates came up with the more commercially viable idea of coating cardboard tubes or discs with wax to do the job. But wax recordings were incredibly fragile, capable of only limited playback and prone to deterioration over time. So when researchers at the Smithsonian discovered a piece of paper in a collection of the earliest audio recordings ever made that transcribed an 1885 recording ostensibly made by Bell, then matched that to an actual wax-on-cardboard disc sporting the initials &#8220;AGB&#8221; and the same date, April 15, 1885, they couldn&#8217;t just drop it into an old-school player and crank away. How to validate the awesome possibility that they&#8217;d discovered an actual recording of one of America&#8217;s most famous inventors? According to Bell biographer Charlotte Gray: Bell conducted his sound experiments between 1880 and 1886, collaborating with his cousin Chichester Bell and technician Charles Sumner Tainter. They worked at Bell’s Volta Laboratory, at 1221 Connecticut Avenue in Washington, originally established inside what had been a stable. In 1877, his great rival, Thomas Edison, had recorded sound on embossed foil; Bell was eager to improve the process. Some of Bell’s research on light and sound during this period anticipated fiber-optic communications. Inside the lab, Bell and his associates bent over their pioneering audio apparatus, testing the potential of a variety of materials, including metal, wax, glass, paper, plaster, foil and cardboard, for recording sound, and then listening to what they had embedded on discs or cylinders. However, the precise methods they employed in early efforts to play back their recordings are lost to history.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=161136&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Should Toddlers Use Tablets and Smartphones After All?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/24/should-toddlers-use-tablets-and-smartphones-after-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 20:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life with an almost 9-month-old is like a revolving door — everything that&#8217;s old is new: Sophie the rubber giraffe, a crinkly piece of yellow cloth-wrapped plastic, a strange plush-toy thingamajig with half a dozen waggling appendages. But these pale in comparison with the family smartphones, tablets and laptops, which gleaming screens our little boy would probably sit for hours watching if we allowed it, mesmerized by computer-generated images of owls trampolining off cloud tops or beaming stars which closeups conjure smiles and sometimes shrieks of delight. Every time I whip out my smartphone in his vicinity, I feel like Frodo donning the One Ring. It&#8217;s as if my child can sense its presence (that, or he&#8217;s associated &#8220;crack-cocaine-supertoy-appear!&#8221; with the zombie faces we probably make as we&#8217;re tapping away). If we face the screen toward him, whoa, Nellie: up come both hands, mouth popping wide, arms reaching out like Superman about to take flight. I always thought little kids were drawn to backlit screens because of repetition and acclimation, as in the case of parents who drop them in front of cartoons and use the screens as babysitters, the addiction inculcated — but it has to be more than that. Our little boy was hypnotized the first time he noticed the TV screen, just a few months old, craning his neck in ways we&#8217;d not yet seen, desperately trying to keep the screen (an episode of Breaking Bad, if memory serves) in view from his vantage on the floor as we worked to face him away from it. The American Academy of Pediatrics has repeatedly warned that screen time for children under the age of 2 is a no-no. Why? Research suggests it delays language development and can disrupt sleep. Generally speaking, we know that interacting directly and routinely with your child is paramount when it comes to hitting established developmental milestones. In fact, a recent story in the New York Times referenced research by academics Betty Hart and Todd Risley (published in the 1995 book Meaningful Differences in the Everyday<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=160949&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Finally, Tattoos That Let You Control Objects with Your Mind</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/02/22/finally-tattoos-that-let-you-control-objects-with-your-mind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 17:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Science hasn&#8217;t been easy on the paranormal, routinely deflating fantastic claims by hucksters purporting psychic abilities. So wouldn&#8217;t it be ironic if scientists were on the verge of making paranormal-like abilities a reality? Imagine controlling an object with your mind. Or don&#8217;t, because you probably already have. I did when I was a (pretty little) kid. It never worked, of course, but boy did I stare daggers at several unsuspecting flower pots, pencils and sticks of chalk. The trouble, of course, is that your brain works a whole lot better when it&#8217;s motivating things it&#8217;s actually wired to, say your eyeballs, tongue, fingers or toes. But aha, you&#8217;re saying, we have wireless technology in 2013. We live in the future! Can&#8217;t we just cut that cord, too? We already have: If you want to get technical about it, when using a handheld remote control with old-school antennae to pilot a hobby-style airplane across a field, you don&#8217;t actually touch the radio-controlled plane; the brain-interface includes your hands and the control box. But that assumes you have hands to work with, and working a control box to drive a wireless drone around is hardly &#8220;telekinetic&#8221; &#8212; not half as cool-sounding as it might be if you could simply think that drone into action. You&#8217;ve probably heard of brain implants acting as biomedical prostheses in what&#8217;s sometimes referred to as a &#8220;brain-computer interface,&#8221; allowing someone to manipulate neuroprosthetic arms and legs or simply nudge a mouse cursor using nothing but thought. We&#8217;re doing that stuff today. But you&#8217;re still talking about interfaces that usually involve invasive technology, often drilled into the skull and attached directly to the brain itself &#8212; Jean Grey, it&#8217;s not. What if you could reduce the interface to something that didn&#8217;t require brain surgery, something not only noninvasive, but roughly the size of a tiny, removable tattoo? Call it &#8220;cerebral cord-cutting.&#8221; That&#8217;s essentially what Dr. Todd Coleman and fellow researchers at the University of California San Diego are up to, creating &#8220;electronic tattoos&#8221; capable of interfacing with your brain and<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=157092&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We Can Almost Print New Organs Using 3D Stem Cells</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/02/05/we-can-almost-print-new-organs-using-3d-stem-cells/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 17:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[File this under unexpectedly cool: organs you don&#8217;t harvest, but instead print using an honest-to-goodness printer, just as you might words on paper, except in this case, the &#8220;words&#8221; are actual stem cells that could save someone&#8217;s life. Let&#8217;s talk about 3D printers for a moment: high-tech contraptions that let you craft three-dimensional objects with a computer aided design program, then render them in the real world as instantly usable objects with, say, a little powder and some binding material. We&#8217;ve used such devices to make everything from jewelry and full-color models of human faces to smartphone cases and battery-powered motors. Scan an existing physical object like a crescent wrench into a computer and a 3D printer can completely replicate it just a short while later, no assembly required, right down to the adjustable jaws and cylindrical track. (MORE: Finally, a Tiny Robotic Vacuum for Smartphones and Tablets) Now imagine a device that could print new organs on demand using cells in lieu of ink (call it &#8220;bio-ink,&#8221; because the scientists do). It&#8217;s part of a process known as biofabrication: assembling the essential cellular building blocks of organs using the mechanical exactness of computer-driven, three-dimensional printing technology. Say you need a new trachea, a part of the body we&#8217;ve already managed to replicate using stem cells and successfully transplant to a human with late-stage tracheal cancer (I&#8217;m not making that up or exaggerating). With a 3D printer and a bunch of stem cell-saturated bio-ink, you might be able to just print that trachea on demand thanks to a new technique that lets you pass human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) through a printer nozzle without destroying them. A team of researchers from Scotland announced Monday that they&#8217;d finally managed to get an inkjet-style printer to craft an organic 3D object. Not an actual organ (well, not yet), but these scientists claim they&#8217;ve been able to clear a crucial hurdle: getting hESCs, prized for their ability to become cells of any tissue type, to survive the printing process. The solution involved rejiggering the way the inkjet-style 3D printer worked,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=156122&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Facebook Makes You Feel Bad About Yourself</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/01/24/why-facebook-makes-you-feel-bad-about-yourself/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No surprise — those Facebook photos of your friends on vacation or celebrating a birthday party that can make you feel lousy. via Why Facebook Makes You Feel Miserable &#124; TIME.com.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=155548&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Firefighters Pop High-Tech Pills to Monitor Vitals Wirelessly</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/01/18/firefighters-pop-high-tech-pills-to-monitor-vitals-wirelessly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:15:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What if keeping tabs on someone&#8217;s vitals remotely could save an emergency responder&#8217;s life? What if all it took was swallowing a Tylenol-sized capsule that harbored tiny sensors and a wireless transmitter instead of atomized medicine? What if someone had a way to do this now? It turns out they do: Firefighters in Australia are popping a purplish capsule that harbors a micro-sized thermometer and wireless transmitter as part of a trial designed to help authorities better understand how the human body manages heat stress while dealing with life-threatening blazes. (MORE: Dolby’s Glasses-Free 3D May Be Worth Waiting For) &#8220;If we see their core body temperature increasing then we know to remove them from the fire and put them into the rehabilitation area,&#8221; says Peter Langridge, Victoria&#8217;s Country Fire Authority (CFA) health and wellbeing officer (via news.com.au). Langridge says working in high-temperature situations can stress individuals differently; the capsule thus becomes a way to &#8220;personalize&#8221; how individual firefighters are both deployed and managed in dealing with a fire. &#8220;There is no set formula for how long a person can fight a fire before they start suffering from heat stress or dehydration and management is the key to protecting our fire fighters,&#8221; adds Langridge. The capsule is carefully sealed, of course, and no, it doesn&#8217;t dissolve in the stomach/intestine, or, you know, unleash a tiny submarine dubbed the Proteus carrying microscopic scientists miniaturized with a shrink-ray (though that&#8217;d be pretty cool, too). It&#8217;s actually made of plastic &#8212; unlike medicine capsules, which are composed of dissolvable gelling agents &#8212; so it simply passes through the system in a day or two. The capsule, otherwise known as an &#8220;Equivital EQ02 LifeMonitor,&#8221; is made by a U.K. company called Equivital [Note: This article previously identified the company as Vivonoetics, which merely resells the monitor] that specializes in body-worn physiological monitoring. It actually works in tandem with a small, lightweight external device called a Sensor Electronics Module (SEM) that&#8217;s worn in a Holter-like belt around the chest. The capsule measures the individual&#8217;s core temperature, then talks to the SEM using<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=155299&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beam Toothbrush Connects to Your Smartphone, Can Tattle to Your Dentist</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/01/15/beam-toothbrush-connects-to-your-smartphone-can-tattle-to-your-dentist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 16:45:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Beam Brush looks like a chunky vibrating toothbrush, but the chunkiness merely makes way for a AA battery and a Bluetooth chip that wirelessly reports your brushing habits to your smartphone. You brush your teeth the old-fashioned way, ideally twice a day for two minutes at a time (I&#8217;m out!) while earning special rewards from the Beam app. If you&#8217;re looking for a little friendly competition, multiple Beam Brushes can connect to the same smartphone; if you&#8217;re looking for some motivation, you can play music during the two minutes you&#8217;re brushing. Your brushing habits can even be sent to your dentist, who will undoubtedly use said data to catch you in a web of oral hygiene-related lies during your next visit. The brush itself costs $50, while replacement heads cost $4 apiece. Helpful as ever, the app – available for Apple and Android devices – will let you know when it&#8217;s time to replace the head and let you order new ones directly from your phone. Beam Brush [beamtoothbrush.com]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=155095&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Basis Health-Tracking Watch Sports Serious Sensors, New Android App</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/01/10/basis-health-tracking-watch-sports-serious-sensors-new-android-app/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While there&#8217;s certainly no shortage of wearable health gadgets these days, the $200 Basis watch packs enough fancy sensors that you&#8217;d probably look like the hypochondriac version of Robocop if you wore them all separately. That all the data the watch compiles is synchronized to a straightforward website and new companion Android app helps as well. As for the watch itself, there&#8217;s an optical blood flow sensor that captures your heart rate, a three-axis accelerometer that acts like a suped-up pedometer and pulls double-duty to analyze your sleep quality, a perspiration monitor that gauges the intensity of your workouts, and a  sensor that measures how much you&#8217;re exerting yourself by comparing your skin temperature against the ambient temperature around you. Oh, and it tells time, too. I first met with Basis CEO Jef Holove way back in October of 2011 as his company was preparing to launch the watch, but it ended up getting delayed until late November 2012. Here&#8217;s a look at the finally-finished product, along with the companion Android app the company announced here at CES: MORE: Check out TIME Tech&#8217;s complete coverage of the Consumer Electronics Show<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=154652&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scanadu Aims to Turn Smartphones into Healthcare Helpers</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/11/29/scanadu-aims-to-turn-smartphones-into-healthcare-helpers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2012 20:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scanadu is a Silicon Valley startup with a great tagline: &#8220;Sending your smartphone to med school.&#8221; It&#8217;s begun explaining what it means by showing off the products it&#8217;s working on: diagnostic gadgets which talk to phones, intended to let consumers monitor their health quickly, easily and maybe with fewer trips to the doctor&#8217;s office. The company is developing SCOUT, a palm-sized gizmo it plans to sell for about $150. Hold it to your temple for a few seconds, and it will then send information such as your pulse, temperature and blood oxygen level to a companion phone app via Bluetooth. And if your healthcare provider&#8217;s office is properly equipped, it will also be able to transmit the data it collects on to your doctor. It&#8217;s also creating disposable saliva-based flu tests (code-named Scanaflu) and urine-based pregnancy tests (code-named Scanaflo). Both have boxes which turn different colors when exposed to the liquid in question; hold up a smartphone, and it&#8217;ll scan the boxes and tell you about what the test determined. Scanadu&#8217;s CEO, Walter de Brouwer, and chief medical officer, Alan Greene, demoed the products for me earlier this week. They looked pretty darn cool, but they&#8217;re works in progress: For instance, the Scout which de Brouwer and Greene showed wasn&#8217;t yet encased in the sleek case shown above (which was created by industrial-design god Yves Behar). And everything still needs to be approved by the FDA. The company hopes to have its inventions in stores by the fall of 2013.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=152538&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Your Brain, the Internet and the Universe Have Something Fascinating in Common</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/11/28/your-brain-the-internet-and-the-universe-have-something-fascinating-in-common/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 14:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alt Tech]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Some part of our being knows this is where we came from,&#8221; says Carl Sagan at one point during his epic cosmology-narrating documentary, Cosmos. &#8220;We long to return. And we can. Because the cosmos is also within us. We&#8217;re made of star-stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.&#8221; I remember reading that second-t0-last sentence somewhere as a kid before I&#8217;d even seen the show in the 1980s. &#8220;Star-stuff,&#8221; an economic, deeply poetic way of driving such an elegant point home. It was mind-blowing to me at the time, back in grade school, just beginning to wrap my head around how scientists thought the puzzle pieces fit together. But what if it turned out that what we&#8217;ve become over the course of evolutionary eons is about more than just the elemental stuff that stars and planets and nebulae are made of? What if the very structure of our brains, as well as the things our brains can lay claim to &#8212; constructs like the Internet, social networks, etc. &#8212; resembled the underlying structure of the universe itself? That&#8217;s what a recent study published in the science journal Nature’s Scientific Reports suggests &#8212; that not only are we star-stuff, but that there may be a kind of cosmic feedback loop in the design of our brains and what we&#8217;ve created using them. &#8220;By no means do we claim that the universe is a global brain or a computer,&#8221; said Dmitri Krioukov (via UCSD News), one of the paper&#8217;s co-authors and a senior research scientist at the University of California, San Diego. (He&#8217;s also the guy who, back in April, successfully appealed a failure-to-stop traffic ticket by writing a four-page research paper that suggested, using basic high-school math, why he wasn&#8217;t guilty as charged.) But while the paper isn&#8217;t an attempt to describe the universe as some sort of vast, cosmic intellect, Krioukov says brain-universe parallels exist: &#8220;[The] discovered equivalence between the growth of the universe and complex networks strongly suggests that unexpectedly similar laws govern the dynamics of<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=152062&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gadzooks, Another Invisibility Cloak! So Why Is This One &#8216;Perfect&#8217;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 14:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Raise your hand if you&#8217;ve ever been somewhere you wish you could disappear. You know, just blink right out of existence &#8212; push a button on a gadget or whip out an invisibility poncho, say, then make like a magic coin and vanish. Over the years, you&#8217;ve probably heard about various ways to make this happen that don&#8217;t involve lucky gift-recipient boy-wizards or whatever the heck it is those cosmic trophy-hunting aliens were using in the campy John McTiernan films. In March, for instance, I wrote about a hydrogen-powered Mercedes car rendered all but invisible by pairing a camera with a cloak of colored lights. The idea behind the see-through Mercedes involved putting the camera on one side of the vehicle, then draping a blanket of LEDs over the other. The camera transmitted what it was seeing opposite the far side side of the car to the displays on the other &#8212; if the cameras picked up an Italian restaurant, say, along with plants, trees and passerby, the LEDs displayed all that in high fidelity on the other side of the car in real time. Looking at the car from the side with the LEDs was thus like looking through it, and the only parts visible were the uncovered wheels. But that&#8217;s a lot of work just to make something only partly disappear. Another possibility involves using &#8220;metamaterials&#8221; to fiddle the way light interacts with stuff like our clothes, skin or objects in general &#8212; a field of experimental science now referred to as &#8220;transformation optics,&#8221; focused on controlling light to manipulate the visible world. Light normally travels in a straight line, but by using specially crafted materials that can warp the electromagnetic spectrum or alter the actual speed of light rays, you can affect the way light interacts with an object, even making it appear to disappear. In fact it&#8217;s already the stuff of science-past: In 2006, researchers at Duke University touted an &#8220;invisibility cloak&#8221; that deflected microwave beams around a copper cylinder, rendering the cylinder itself almost invisible. But only almost. You<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=151049&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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